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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language
From: cellog@php.net (Greg Beaver)

James Crumpton wrote:
> Evaluating an idea based on it's syntactic similarities to other
> languages is complete and utter nonsense. It has nothing to with being
> like language Xyz. It has to do with familiarity to language constructs.
> One already understands the idea of 'this || that'. It's certainly

I'll throw the water on this one:

<?php
$c = 0;
$a = 1;
var_dump($c || $a);
?>

With the existing PHP, this script results in:

bool(true)

With your proposed change because it would return the first non-null set
variable, it will instead output:

int(0)

Changing true into false consitutes a rather severe BC break :).

Greg